The Sun never knew how wonderful it was
until it fell on the wall of a building.
Louis Kahn, Architectquoted in forward of In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki

Mud Mosque, Mali

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain,
and see even here, upon a winter’s day,
how beautiful the shadows are. Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so.
The loveliest things in life are but shadows,
and they come and go, and change and fade away…- Charles Dickens

Cambodia

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows,
the light and dark which that thing provides.
– Junichiro Tanizaki

Kabul, Afghanistan

We are but dust and shadow.- Horace

Preah Khan, Cambodia

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.- J.R. R. Tolkien

Thailand

Burma/Myanmar

Mauritania

Brazil

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow.- T. S. Eliot

Italy

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it. The tree is the real thing.- Abraham Lincoln

New York

Kandze, Tibet

Burma/Myanmar

Kabul, Afghanistan

China

Kashmir

Korea

Hindu Kush Mountains, Afghanistan

Ancient Catacombs, Rome, Italy

A shadow on the wallboughs stirred by the noonday windthat’s enough earthand for the eyeenough celestial participation.- Gottfried BennTranslated from the German by Michael Hofmann

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
– Charles Dickens

Yemen

Home is where the heart is.
Pliny The Elder, A.D. 23-79

Mali

Kashmir

Philippines

The home should be the treasure chest of living.
– Le Corbusier

Morocco

Mauritania

Afghanistan

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
– Rumi, (Jalal Al-Din Rumi, 1207 – 1273)

Tibet

Tibet

Tibet

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
– Margaret Mead

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Philippines

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts
are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the
head and heart?
– Orison Swett Marden

Peru

La Fortuna, Honduras

Bring love into your home for this is where our
love for each other must start.
– Mother Teresa

Nepal

Paraguay

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Afghanistan

My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars,
I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest
outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne, 1533 – 1592

Philippines

Home is any four walls that enclose the right people. - Helen Rowland

Kashmir

Pakistan

Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home.There are so many young people who are homeless.They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts.That is why the most important practiceof our time is to give each person a home.- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter’s day, how beautiful the shadows are. Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so.
The lovliest things in life are but shadows, and they come and go, and change and fade away…”- Charles Dickens

Kabul, Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Burma/Myanmar

Cambodia

Bodh Gaya, India

Girl peeks out a train window, India

Mud Mosque, Mali

After the earthquake and tsunami, Japan, 2011

Philippines

Vietnam

Vietnam

Croatia

Grand Central Terminal, New York

Train Station, Old Delhi, India

“The Sun never knew how wonderful it was until it fell on the wall of a building.”

Louis Kahn, Architect
quoted in the forward of the book,In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki